Quotes from Tess Gerritsen

Asl?nda hepimiz yaral?y?z. Sadece baz?lar?m?z?n yaras? di?erlerinden daha fazla belli, o kadar.

I'm sorry to say that too often, I haven't a clue why people do things like this. Why they drown their babies or strangle their wives or shoot their coworkers. I see the results of their actions, but I can't tell you what sets them off. I just know that it happens. And people are capable of doing terrible things.

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.

There's nothing as boring as perfection

Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?

But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched.

When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.

mother, thought Claire, cannot knight her own son. It must be done by another man.

Maura dertli bir kahkaha att?. Bir ili?kinin dayand?r?labilece?i en sa?lam ?ey trajedi.

We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love.

Kalpler,sonuçlar?n? pek deÄŸerlendirmeden seçimlerini yapar.Seçimini yapt?ktan sonra da kendisini bekleyen yaln?z geceleri düÅŸünmez.

Sometimes, she thought, you've got to accept a helping hand. Sometimes you've got to admit you can't do it all by yourself.

Based on the timing, the circumstances. In July 1970, William Maitland vanished from the face of the earth. In August of the same year, we heard the first reports of a foreign pilot flying for the enemy. Running weapons and gold.

It's yet another thing that irritates me this morning, on top of the fact that I'm hungry. I didn't sleep well, and now the mosquitos have found me. Mosquitos always find me. Whenever I step outside , it's as if they can hear their dinner bell ring, and already I am slapping at my neck and face.

That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became aware of her own pulse. She had always taken her heartbeat for granted, and she wondered what it would be like, to hang on every beat, fearful that the next might not come. That the throb of life in her chest would suddenly go still.

So much of what passes for excitement in our lives cannot be anticipated, and we must learn to savor the spectacles as they come, and appreciate the rare thrills that punctuate the otherwise monotonous passage of time.

Sahip olamayaca??n bir adama a??k olduysan hayal k?r?kl???ndan ba?ka ne elde edebilirsin ki?

Always pay attention to your dreams, her mother had taught her. They're voices telling you what you already know, whispering advice you haven't yet heeded.

Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.

Why do we always treat kids like the enemy?" "Because they so often behave like an alien species?